#90 booting from esata drive using esata expresscard
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nobody
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2008-05-01
2008-05-01
Anonymous
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I apologize if this isn't something rEFIT could be developed to do. I would like to be able to boot windows or any other OS from an eSATA drive on a macbook pro using an esata expresscard.
I've heard some reports that newer MacBook Pro's could actually do that by themselves. I haven't got the chance to test that yet, as I have a 1st gen MBP and even with the newest EFI it can't boot from an external HDD connected via eSATA ExpressCard.
I guess it should be possible to introduce that feature. I'd really love to see this feature too, as this would be the only way to nicely install a separate OS without the need to consume the little space on the internal hard drive (remember Firewire is no option for windows and usb is far to slow, experience tells :/).
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I've heard some reports that newer MacBook Pro's could actually do that by themselves. I haven't got the chance to test that yet, as I have a 1st gen MBP and even with the newest EFI it can't boot from an external HDD connected via eSATA ExpressCard.
I guess it should be possible to introduce that feature. I'd really love to see this feature too, as this would be the only way to nicely install a separate OS without the need to consume the little space on the internal hard drive (remember Firewire is no option for windows and usb is far to slow, experience tells :/).